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Family Research Scholars Program

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Daniel Anderson, Professor of Psychology (Developmental Area)
545-0269, anderson@psych.umass.edu

Anderson, D.R. (in press).  A neuroscience of children and media?  Journal of Children and Media.

Evans, M.K. & Anderson, D.R. (2007).  The impact of television on cognitive development and educational achievement.  In J. Murray, N. Pecora & E. Wartella (Eds), Fifty years of children’s television (pp. 65-84).  Erlbaum.

Anderson, D.R., Bryant, J., Murray, J.P., Rich, M., Rivkin, M., & Zillmann, D. (2006).  Brain imaging – An introduction to a new approach to studying media processes and effects.  Media Psychology, 8, 1-6.

Anderson, D.R., Fite, K.V., Petrovich, N., & Hirsch, J. (2006).  Cortical activation while watching video montage:  An fMRI study.  Media Psychology, 8, 7-24.

Anderson, D.R. & Kirkorian, H.L. (2006).  Attention and television.  In J. Bryant & P. Vorderer (Eds.), The psychology of entertainment (pp. 35-54).  Mahway, NJ:  Erlbaum.

Blass, E.M., Anderson, D.R., Kirkorian, H.L., Pempek, T.A., Price, I., & Koleini, M.F. (2006).  On the road to obesity:  Television viewing increases intake of high-density food.  Physiology & Behavior, 88, 597-604.

Institute of Medicine.  (2006).  Food Marketing to Children and Youth:  Threat or Opportunity?  Washington, DC:  National Academies Press. (Member of the IOM committee and coauthor of the book.)

David Arnold, Associate Professor of Psychology (Clinical Division)
545-2157, darnold@psych.umass.edu

Arnold, D. H., Brown, S., Meagher, S., Baker, C. N., Dobbs, J., & Doctoroff, G. L. (in press). Preschool-based programs for externalizing problems, Education and Treatment of Children.

Maxie, A. C., Arnold, D. H., & Stephenson, M. (in press). Do therapists address ethnic differences in cross-cultural psychotherapy? Psychotherapy.

Dobbs, J., Doctoroff, G. L., Fisher, P. H., & Arnold, D. H. (2006). The association between preschool children's socio-emotional functioning and mathematical achievement. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 27, 97-108.

Doctoroff, G. L., Greer, J., & Arnold, D. H. (2006). Gender differences in the relationship between social behavior and early academic development in preschoolers. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 27, 1-13.

Kim, H-J, Arnold, D. H, Fisher, P. H., & Zeljo, A. (2005). Parenting and preschoolers' symptoms as a function of child gender and SES. Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 27, 23-41.

Daniel Clawson, Professor of Sociology
545-5974, clawson@sadri.umass.edu

Books

The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.

Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds, edited by Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, and Robert Zussman. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.

"Caring for Our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States" (Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel), Contexts vol. 1 no. 4, pp. 28-35, Fall-Winter 2002.

"Unions' Responses to Family Concerns" (Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson), Social Problems 48:277-298, May 2001.

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Naomi Gerstel, Professor of Sociology
545-5976, gerstel@sadri.umass.edu

"Family Leaves, the FMLA, and Gender Neutrality: The Intersection of Race and Gender" Social Science Research, Forthcoming (Amy Armenia and Naomi Gerstel).

Families at Work: Expanding the Boundaries. Vanderbilt University Press, 2002. (Edited, Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman.)

"Kin Support Among Blacks and Whites: Race and Family Organization," American Sociological Review, December 2005 (Natasha Sarkisian and Naomi Gerstel).

"A Labor of Love or Labor Itself: Care Work among Adult Brothers and Sisters" Journal of Family Issues, Oct, 2002. (Shelley Eriksen and Naomi Gerstel).

Paula Pietromonaco, Associate Professor of Psychology (Social and Personality Division)
545-3156, monaco@psych.umass.edu

Pietromonaco, P. R., & Feldman Barrett, L. (in press). What can you do for me?: Attachment style and motives underlying esteem for partners. Journal of Research in Personality.

Pietromonaco, P. R., Greenwood, D., & Feldman Barrett, L. (2004). Conflict in adult close relationships: An attachment perspective. In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (Eds.), Adult attachment: New directions and emerging issues (pp. 267-299). New York: Guilford Press.

Pietromonaco, P. R., Laurenceau, J. P., & Feldman Barrett, L. (2002). Change in relational knowledge structures. In H. Reis, M. A. Fitzpatrick, & A. Vangelisti (Eds.), Stability and change in relationship behavior. Advances in personal relationships.

Fishtein, J., Pietromonaco, P. R., & Feldman Barrett, L. (1999). The contribution of attachment style and relationship conflict to the complexity of relationship knowledge. Social Cognition, 17, 228-244.

Erica Scharrer, Assistant Professor of Communication
545-4765, scharrer@comm.umass.edu

Comstock, G., & Scharrer, E. (in progress). Media and the American Child. Under contract with Elsevier/Academic Press.

Scharrer, E. (2001). From wise to foolish: The portrayal of the sitcom father, 1950s-1990s. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 45(1), 23-40.

Scharrer, E. (2001). Men, muscles, and machismo: The relationship between television violence and aggression in the presence of hypermasculinity, Media Psychology, 3(2), 159-188.

Scharrer, E. (2001). Tough guys: The portrayal of aggression and hypermasculinity in televised police dramas. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 45(4), 615-634.

Comstock, G., & Scharrer, E. (1999). Television: What's On, Who's Watching, and What it Means, San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
* Nominated by Dr. Maxwell McCombs for the International Communication Association Book Award, 2000-2001.

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